I like my 2 MiST After moving to a new home he is replacing much old computers I had and he is one of the best emulation because of the FPGA.Some cores could be better, but at most I like the AGA AMIGA Core and the CPC.

For ZX Spectrum and other small cores I also got a ZXUNO or a RPi for Amibian

Whoever makes his cross in the second answer is to blame for the fact that it is so. Already do something for the community?I have often asked for help, there are always the same 5 people who help and test.As long as Core developers have to work on the Wiki (Till, Sorgelig), they have no time to work on Cores. And when I ask for a simple RGB test (everyone is screaming for RGB cores) and become no answer, then I leave it just, i have buy a Scart Cable(just for the screamer, I do not need it) but my LCD TV eats almost all Frequencies. I have no CRT. You could also test Cores which are uninteresting for you, just to help the community

I have a TurboChameleon 64 too, but i purchased a MiST because there are more cores available, in order to the quality of most of them, like the spectrum, cpc, amiga, atari, nes ones.I'm not a developer but i like fpga projects. I can only make test to help the community but i think that we can make a donation to developers if this can help too.

Gehstock wrote:Whoever makes his cross in the second answer is to blame for the fact that it is so. Already do something for the community?I have often asked for help, there are always the same 5 people who help and test.As long as Core developers have to work on the Wiki (Till, Sorgelig), they have no time to work on Cores. And when I ask for a simple RGB test (everyone is screaming for RGB cores) and become no answer, then I leave it just, i have buy a Scart Cable(just for the screamer, I do not need it) but my LCD TV eats almost all Frequencies. I have no CRT. You could also test Cores which are uninteresting for you, just to help the community

Sorry for bad English, I hope it is to understand what I want to say

Sorry, slightly off topic. Gehstock, I left a bug report on your MiSTer Github. I'm not sure if you saw it.

Gehstock wrote:Whoever makes his cross in the second answer is to blame for the fact that it is so. Already do something for the community?I have often asked for help, there are always the same 5 people who help and test.As long as Core developers have to work on the Wiki (Till, Sorgelig), they have no time to work on Cores. And when I ask for a simple RGB test (everyone is screaming for RGB cores) and become no answer, then I leave it just, i have buy a Scart Cable(just for the screamer, I do not need it) but my LCD TV eats almost all Frequencies. I have no CRT. You could also test Cores which are uninteresting for you, just to help the community

Sorry for bad English, I hope it is to understand what I want to say

Your answer is quite interesting. As a newcomer I have to be honest and say that I have never went through the backlog of topics to see if there is anything I could do, but let me tell you:

I am here and ready to help.

I do not have any FPGA skills, but I have some IT background. I am sure that I can help test some of the cores. Strike that... I would love help test some of the cores and contribute to the community.

The objective of this topic was also to elicit comments like yours to see if there is anything we can do to help.

I voted option #1, and didn't find essential to write a comment to this topic, but reading the previous ones, I do.

I like my MiST, and I have a Turbo Chameleon 64 and a Raspberry Pi 3 with Retropie as well.

I think the main problem is that usual MiST owners, like me, don't have the necessary knowledge to program in Verilog/VHDL. Most of the first core portres/developers simply disappeared (i.e. MasterOfGizmo, wsoltys, sebdel), or they are just passive nowadays.

There are only 2-3 persons who still active develop for MiST: the creator/porter of Amstrad cpc 6128, Gehstock and of course Sorgelig.

No one can force developers to make that they don't want to do, and I accept it.

I'm glad if I can help with testing RGB/component out and/or VGA compatibility, and I do this more or less regularly. I also help newbies often, but mostly I don't have the deeper knowledge of the given systems.

OFFTOPIC:Last week I ordered a GBS 8200 upscaler from China (was temptated by the low price), as arrives will test it especially in aspect of non-standard (i.e. PAL) output cores and make some screenshots.

I did a lot of testing on the NES core (800+ games) and provided as much support + docs as I could when a core developer (sebdel) was willing to work on the HDL... but sadly he ran out of free time for it and we had to stop. The biggest problems right now are mapper support and handling battery saves on SD card. I know they are hard to do, unfortunately.

Aternatively, I'd be interested in helping with the Gameboy and PC Engine cores. I have real hardware and access to an oscilloscope if that helps in any way.

PS: I have three MiST, which I use in different locations, one MiSTer, a TC64 and an RPi3 (the last two are gathering dust; MiST/MiSTer are my main jam).

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DrOG wrote:OFFTOPIC:Last week I ordered a GBS 8200 upscaler from China (was temptated by the low price), as arrives will test it especially in aspect of non-standard (i.e. PAL) output cores and make some screenshots.

It's a good option to stabilize the VGA signal on the cheap, bit not that good with 50hz (PAL). You can search the forum for my posts on it.

Actually i was seduced by the low price (18$ with shipping). I'll try to combine it with a cheap 'Mini VGA2HDMI Adapter', which handles only standard VGA resolutions and refresh rates. It may be a working and 'futureproof' solution, as the trend is the disappearance of analog inputs from the modern TV-s/monitors (no more VGA or SCART connectors...)

I have a TurboChameleon 64 too, but i purchased a MiST because there are more cores available, in order to the quality of most of them, like the spectrum, cpc, amiga, atari, nes ones.I'm not a developer but i like fpga projects. I can only make test to help the community but i think that we can make a donation to developers if this can help too.

We dont need Money, i have a Job and i think Sorgelig too

Someone who writes instructions ,makes Videos or a Homepage would raise the motivation tremendously.

And a certain professionalism(not Exclusively from the Cores) also attracts new users and developers.

Interesting to me would be to know which cores are most used. Why hours, days of work to a core for 3 people?

I think AtariST core needs more develope to reach the Amiga Core standard.Also C64 core is one of the most attractive for users.

In another post where we evaluated the possibility of a snes core I pointed out how perhaps it was better to focus the work on the improvement of some current cores, like AtariST, C64, MSX, Vic20, ecc...

Gehstock wrote:Need some Jupiter ACE explanations(and Test). If you can help, please contact me via PN....Interesting to me would be to know which cores are most used. Why hours, days of work to a core for 3 people?

I tested the new Jupiter ACE core, video out seems to be fine in all cases (see attachments). The VGA is the usual non-standard one (50Hz, 576 lines), as in case of other PAL computers.

I couldn't test the tape (audio) in/out, because I'm not familiar with the original hardware.

BTW, found some older screenshots about Bashkiria 2M and Atari 7800 projects, they seem to be interesting...

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DrOG wrote:...I think the main problem is that usual MiST owners, like me, don't have the necessary knowledge to program in Verilog/VHDL. Most of the first core portres/developers simply disappeared (i.e. MasterOfGizmo, wsoltys, sebdel), or they are just passive nowadays....

Still following the progress here but the lack of time remains. Sooner or later I'll buy a "mister" with prebuild extension boards (if available) since I'm still interested in that topic and would like to port some cores to it if not done already. More than that is still beyond my skills and I'll need enough time to come to a state where I was when I left ...